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May 06, 2011
Design Considerations

How to (Cheaply) Beautify a Cable Car Tower

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Julia passes on a link to the Venezia Cable Car which reveals how that city is dealing with the visual pollution of elevated transit infrastructure. It’s pretty brilliant:

Doesn't look like much yet.

. . . until you see the full intention and effect.

Leave it to fine Northern Italian design to figure out how to make elevated transit beautiful.

As we’ve argued and demonstrated before, elevated infrastructure need not be ugly – and there’s absolutely no reason we can’t do something with gondola tower infrastructure.

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  • Christian says:

    I love this, it is so simple to beautify a city and things like this do not have to be overplanned.

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